|
Navigation
Search
Top: LWN.net
|
PC / Tech. > LWN.net
Thursday June 12, 2025. 02:57 AM
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Nyxt; Cyber Resilience Act; Unwanted file descriptors; Core-dump API; 6.16 Merge window; Uniprocessor configurations; Smatch; FUSE zero-copy; iov_iter; Fedora documentation. Briefs: Android tracking; /e/OS 3.0; FreeBSD...
Wednesday June 11, 2025. 03:46 PM
Smatch is a GPL-licensed static-analysis tool for C that has a lot of specialized checks for the kernel. Smatch has been used in the kernel for more than 20 years; Dan Carpenter, its primary author, decided last year that some details of its plugin system were due for a...
The 'Local Mess' GitHub repository is dedicated to the disclosure of an Android tracking exploit used by (at least) Meta and Yandex. While there are subtle differences in the way Meta and Yandex bridge web and mobile contexts and identifiers, both of them essentially...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (glibc, grafana, kernel-rt, libjpeg-turbo, libxslt, and thunderbird), Debian (curl), Fedora (dtk6core, dtk6gui, dtk6log, dtk6widget, fcitx5-qt, gammaray, kddockwidgets, kwin, LabPlot, libqtxdg, nheko, plasma-integration,...
Tuesday June 10, 2025. 09:37 PM
Jean Baptiste Lallement, a member of Canonical's desktop team, has announced that Ubuntu will drop support for GNOME on X11 in the 25.10 ('Questing Quokka') release set for October. GNOME plans to remove X11 support in GNOME 49, which is scheduled for September, so Ubuntu is...
The iov_iter interface is used to describe and iterate through buffers in the kernel. David Howells led a combined storage and filesystem session at the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit (LSFMM+BPF) to discuss ways to improve iov_iter. His...
The Linux kernel famously scales from the smallest of systems to massive servers with thousands of CPUs. It was not always that way, though; the initial version of the kernel could only manage a single processor. That limitation was lifted, obviously, but single-processor...
The Open Invention Network (OIN) is celebrating its 20th anniversary. The central feature of the OIN community is a patent cross-license that covers core Open Source functionality and expands in parallel with the growth of Open Source technology. As growth in Open Source...
The 6.15.2, 6.14.11, and 6.12.33 stable kernel updates have been released; each contains a relatively small set of important fixes. Note that this is the end of the line for the 6.14.x updates; Greg Kroah-Hartman explains the timing of this move: If you notice, this has...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (python-django), Fedora (krb5), Mageia (cockpit, golang, kernel, and kernel-linus), SUSE (augeas, go1.23, go1.24, iputils, libwebp, transfig, and xen), and Ubuntu (amd64-microcode, apport, linux-azure, linux-azure,...
Monday June 9, 2025. 10:37 PM
The 6.16 merge window closed on June 8, as expected, containing 12,899 non-merge commits. This is slightly more than the 6.15 merge window, but well in line with expectations. 7,353 of those were merged after the summary of the first half of the merge window was written....
At Flock, Fedora's annual developer conference, held in Prague from June 5 to June 8, two members of the Fedora documentation team, Petr Bokoč and Peter Boy, led a session on the state of Fedora documentation. The pair covered a brief history of the project's documentation...
The FreeBSD Foundation has announced a report for work completed in April to improve FreeBSD support for laptops. This includes installer updates, improved suspend/resume behavior, as well as progress on a port of Linux 6.7 and 6.8 graphics drivers to drm-kmod. A roadmap for...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (golang, nodejs22, thunderbird, and varnish), Debian (gimp, modsecurity-apache, python-tornado, and roundcube), Fedora (chromium, coreutils, fcgi, ghostscript, krb5, libvpx, mingw-gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free, mingw-libsoup,...
Linus has released 6.16-rc1 and closed the merge window for this release. I think we had a fairly normal merge window, although I did get the feeling that there were a few more 'late straggler' pull requests than usual. Not to a huge degree, but there was definitely an...
Friday June 6, 2025. 06:25 PM
Nyxt is an unusual web browser that tries to answer the question, 'what if Emacs was a good web browser?'. Nyxt is not an Emacs package, but a full web browser written in Common Lisp and available under the BSD three-clause license. Its target audience is developers who want ...
The Netdev 0x19 conference was held in Zagreb, Croatia from March 10 through March 13. The organizers announced today that the videos and slides for all sessions are now online. Topics from the conference include IRQ suspension, the future of SO_TIMESTAMPING, remote TCP...
The 6.16 kernel will include a number of changes to how the kernel handles the processing of core dumps for crashed processes. Christian Brauner explained his reasons for doing this work as: 'Because I'm a clown and also I had it with all the CVEs because we provide a ****...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (go-toolset:rhel8, golang, nodejs:20, nodejs:22, openssh, and python36:3.6), Debian (edk2, libfile-find-rule-perl, and webkit2gtk), Fedora (emacs, libvpx, perl-FCGI, and seamonkey), Mageia (cifs-utils), Red Hat...
In a combined storage and filesystem session at the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit (LSFMM+BPF), Keith Busch led a discussion about zero-copy operations for the Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE) subsystem. The session was proposed by his...
|
25 sources
Current Date
Jul, Wed 2 - 01:54 CEST
|
